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by edm0nd 592 days ago
Also the Japanese Unit 731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

The US government granted many of the "scientists" immunity in exchange for giving over all the data they had learned and helped even cover it up lol

The Japanese did some real fucked up shit in these experiments like chopping off limbs and reattaching them to the opposite side and slicing open pregnant women.

They also flew low flying planes over Chinese cities and dropped Plague-infected fleas which killed tens of thousands of people.

In total, they killed hundreds of thousands of people.

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IIRC even Germany thought unit 731 was bonkers
TIL the USA not only let the people they captured go free in exchange for the information they had on Unit 731, they continued experiments until 1956, well after the war, though this time with Japanese victims.
better to let them die in vain and lose irreplicable, un-re-execable data?